A recent study led by Dima Mazen Qato, PhD, MPH, a senior scholar at the USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics and the Hygeia Centennial Chair at the USC Alfred E. Mann School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, shows that retail pharmacies excluded from Medicare Part D networks were much more likely to close over the past decade, and that independent pharmacies and those located in low-income, Black or Latino communities were more likely to be excluded.

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